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Originally Posted by Maikeru

Thanks for sharing. So... uh the tank gear is...

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/2dd...b8d5b774_2.png

The one on the right? I'm not really sure how I feel about it. However, I loved the bard one.

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Based on the looks, I'd say from left to right: fending, casting, healing, scouting, aiming, striking, maiming.

I base this on, fending cause it looks the heaviest, though that could be because it is on a roe. Casting and healing are the same gear but with a palette swap as usual with Mage gear, scouting cause it kind of looks like a Russian spy, aiming because it's next to scouting and they're the DEX based sets, striking and maiming look similar but the skirt seems more dragoon-like than monk-like.

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Originally Posted by Cabalabob

Based on the looks, I'd say from left to right: fending, casting, healing, scouting, aiming, striking, maiming.

I base this on, fending cause it looks the heaviest, though that could be because it is on a roe. Casting and healing are the same gear but with a palette swap as usual with Mage gear, scouting cause it kind of looks like a Russian spy, aiming because it's next to scouting and they're the DEX based sets, striking and maiming look similar but the skirt seems more dragoon-like than monk-like.

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The Roe though has a color swap of the Miqo's gear...it just looks like a different shape because of how bulky the roes are.

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Originally Posted by Cabalabob

Based on the looks, I'd say from left to right: fending, casting, healing, scouting, aiming, striking, maiming.

I base this on, fending cause it looks the heaviest, though that could be because it is on a roe. Casting and healing are the same gear but with a palette swap as usual with Mage gear, scouting cause it kind of looks like a Russian spy, aiming because it's next to scouting and they're the DEX based sets, striking and maiming look similar but the skirt seems more dragoon-like than monk-like.

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Based on the Roe + Miqo wearing similar sets i'm going to assume those are Scouting + Striking, meaning the far right is probably fending.

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Originally Posted by zar

Can we talk about Diabolos' GLORIOUS RETURN? I hope it's the same mechanics, with 48 doors to compensate the player increase. BRING IT

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I hope its like this in tired of the current raid lay outs.

On to the next topic.
What's with this gear?

Its not bad but it's not great either what the heck? If the current 8 man raid gear looks awfull then the alliance raid gear is supposed to look better why dose it look so I I don't even know the words to describe what I'm feeling.

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Originally Posted by Dererk

I hope its like this in tired of the current raid lay outs.

On to the next topic.
What's with this gear?

Its not bad but it's not great either what the heck? If the current 8 man raid gear looks awfull then the alliance raid gear is supposed to look better why dose it look so I I don't even know the words to describe what I'm feeling.

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I like the look :(

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Originally Posted by DarkB

"Average item level 175 or above". The fail. Content is already old before release. GG SE.

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It is the ilevel you need to enter it, not the ilevel of the gears.

example WoD: entry ilevel is 90, but gear ilevel is 120

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Originally Posted by Nalien

http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/t/64b...1ddf34f3_1.png
Who is this?

Seems to have one of those scouters on his shoulder, that all the Scions have, so I thought it might be Papalymo, but he had short blond hair...

That hood reminds me of Final Fantasy V... Kriles White Mage outfit... Hmmm...
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130522012236

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I don't know but if it's male, pls I want his hair so bad. If it's female and it's available I'll switch so quick lol.

I'm starting to think the ilvl for drops is gonna be 205 instead of 200. Which it will be great lol

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Originally Posted by Israacf

I don't know but if it's male, pls I want his hair so bad. If it's female and it's available I'll switch so quick lol.

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The hair looks like from hair contest

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Originally Posted by Mature

I'm starting to think the ilvl for drops is gonna be 205 instead of 200. Which it will be great lol

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Usually gear from CT always 10 ilvl below current max ilvl

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Originally Posted by Eul

The hair looks like from hair contest

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You are actually right, tis the male one it seems..

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Originally Posted by Eul

The hair looks like from hair contest



Usually gear from CT always 10 ilvl below current max ilvl

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Or same ilevel as the current max. tome gear

I don't get why people are surprised at the low ilvl check for Void Ark. 24 man raids are never going to be on the same difficulty as Coil/Alexander.

My guess on the gears:
The white/obvious one most likely healer. Then they hyur lady left of the potato I'm assuming it's caster since it's the same model.

Skipping all the way to the right, gonna go for tank gear, with loldrg gears on its left.

As for the last three I'm not sure. If it's like WoD, the gear set worn by the roe and the catgirl (same model minus hat) would be the MNK/NIN sets with the last gear set worn by the male au ra would be BRD+MCH. If it's like Alexander gears though, the roe/catgirl sets would be BRD+MCH/NIN with the male au ra one would be MNK.

You can get a non-ant version of the picture from the link this person posted!

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Originally Posted by zar

http://gamerescape.com/2015/10/15/ff...-and-void-ark/

more pictures

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does anyone know what ilvl the gear will be
I'm guessing no one knows for sure but can make a guess based on previous content
I am new to the game so I don't know the patterns

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Originally Posted by _Pigzig

does anyone know what ilvl the gear will be
I'm guessing no one knows for sure but can make a guess based on previous content
I am new to the game so I don't know the patterns

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Highest chance have ilevel 200

can't wait for thisssssss :cool:

and those other two dungeons are with this update as well, yes?

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Originally Posted by MistyMew

most gear is looking quite similar.

Same basic style with color changes. They need a bit more inspiration I think to break away from this style (although I dont hate it!!!) But its all so similar O.o

That doesnt mean I want their alternate "Cirque du Soleil" blm gear failure to return ..nooooooooo thank you, that was the most hideous creation possible, but something not using the same basic pattern would be nice too.

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I agree with this for the most part. Gear for all jobs lately besides their AF feel uninspired and a lot of the sets are starting to look more of the same now. I understand Void Ark is going for a more dark theme, but it doesn't mean you cannot put some more color into it. CT gear at least had interesting color schemes for their armor or based it off a boss. Maybe I am wrong and the unpopular opinion, but I don't see people grabbing gear from here for glamour reasons.

Do we know anything about the sky pirates? I don't recall there ever being any mention of this during the main story.

Any story being shared about sky pirates certainly does seem interesting! With some luck, there will be more info shared about the allagans. If this is unrelated to allagans I'd be ok with the introduction of a new faction in Ishgard.

Eh, I was close in my prediction on the required ilvl. It would have never been above Asuran law gear because they would never tie the big easy raid for "teh casuals" behind an ilvl you could only achieve through a weekly lockout. Gear looks ok, wish tanks could be given something that isn't a skirt every patch.

Please tell me the skirt on the tank set is removable D: fingers crossed for the skirt to be the leg piece.

Non one was surprised, it was just to shift the focus from the usual Glamour gear useless look to something more important. Ark gonna be boring/old 1 week after release. SE is failing very bad into bringing to the table some major change that is not a boring repetitive grindfest to cap weekly stuff. But people are too busy discussing the glamour.

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Originally Posted by Velhart

I agree with this for the most part. Gear for all jobs lately besides their AF feel uninspired and a lot of the sets are starting to look more of the same now. I understand Void Ark is going for a more dark theme, but it doesn't mean you cannot put some more color into it. CT gear at least had interesting color schemes for their armor or based it off a boss. Maybe I am wrong and the unpopular opinion, but I don't see people grabbing gear from here for glamour reasons.

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Speaking from a MCH standpoint, the Void ark sets look...eh. The theming honestly feels overdone when you look at the WoD and law set. Not to mention while the ranged set screams BRD, it looks very misfitting for MCH.
Still waiting for new crafted glamours. Give me the aranche shirt model, dammnit.

Hi res Void Ark gear http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...pach3.1_15.png

Booo, of course the tank gear is the best looking of the set (and I don't tank).

I wonder why they always show the healers as Lalafells?

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Originally Posted by TriksteR

Hi res Void Ark gear http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...pach3.1_15.png

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Hmm.. at least it looks better than Alex gear, IMO, still haven't gotten any piece (expect belt) from Alex as I don't like their visual appearance (--> lack of motivation to obtain them). :p

Think I'll try to get 2nd and 3rd outfits (from left to right). Would be nice if we could dye them tho.

I hope that second one is the bard/machinist gear...been looking for a new coat for a bit now.

YaY! I'm so happy now, the caster set is the one everyone thought was gonna be BRD/MCH just b/c of the hat! But we all know they always just palette swap with Healer gear, so... I actually am happy with the caster set now!

http://gamerescape.com/wp-content/up...pach3.1_15.png

Liking the look of what I think is the caster and tank gear. Actually that may be the brd gear. Could do without the frayed shoulders though.

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Originally Posted by UnstablePersonality

I hope that second one is the bard/machinist gear...been looking for a new coat for a bit now.

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From left to righ:
MNK (or NIN), Caster, Healer, NIN (or MNK), Ranged, DRG, Tank

BRD/MCH get the mantle with the holes ^^

Do we know what iLevel the Void Ark gear will be?

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Originally Posted by RiceisNice

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Yea would be nice if they mixed it up once in a while. Only end game gear that looks MCH like is the ilvl160 gear and AF. Ninja has the same issue, very few NIN pieces look like it is for Rogue more than Ninja itself.

Developers also need to stop just copy/pasting one set to another. This has been a thing since 2.0 Day 1. These are raids and big end game content, does it take up so much space and resources to give the 6 gear categories their own set? Like Void Ark here, MNK and NIN have the same looking set, just different color. Caster and Healer share the same set except different colors. If it is truly a problem to make something unique for each gear set I can understand, but looking at it from the outside, it just looks like cutting corners to me.

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Originally Posted by Velhart

These are raids and big end game content, does it take up so much space and resources to give the 6 gear categories their own set?

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I think it is more a matter of developement time. To design a new model need more time than to change an already finished model.

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Originally Posted by Felis

I think it is more a matter developement time. To design a new model need more time than to change an already finished model.

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That is more than fine for things like leveling dungeons or lower end game dungeon gear. The gear I refer to is the big time end game gear that is considered at least in it's prime the best. I understand if there is something in the design process I may not be aware of, but it feels underwhelming that the designers just copy/paste sets and recolor them. The end game raid armor I mean.

Recycled boss and ugly looking armor sets? This is depressing.

At least I won't have to farm it and endure the stupidity of 23 other players. So there is that.

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Originally Posted by Hito-Shura

Recycled boss and ugly looking armor sets? This is depressing.

At least I won't have to farm it and endure the stupidity of 47 other players. So there is that.

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I think the caster/tank armor looks great (and I have BLM and WAR at 60 - wooooo) - to each their own. i175 is perfect - that means the moment I manage to suffer leveling to 60 on an alt job I get to go into void arc with it...yay.

I hope that Diabolos get this time mechanics that can't be ignored with higher ilevel gear.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

http://i60.tinypic.com/9sq91u.jpg

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lol what? how do u see it? :S

because the image is big :S

http://i.imgur.com/oyOjY3o.png

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Originally Posted by DarkB

Non one was surprised, it was just to shift the focus from the usual Glamour gear useless look to something more important. Ark gonna be boring/old 1 week after release. SE is failing very bad into bringing to the table some major change that is not a boring repetitive grindfest to cap weekly stuff. But people are too busy discussing the glamour.

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Bingo! Someone get this guy a cookie or something

Also, I am willing to bet 25 million gil that they have not fixed the TERRIBLE loot system of their 24 man "raid" series.

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Originally Posted by zosia

Bingo! Someone get this guy a cookie or something

Also, I am willing to bet 25 million gil that they have not fixed the TERRIBLE loot system of their 24 man "raid" series.

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Your 25 million gil is safe, Yoshi-P already said that they are using the same exact looting system from CT. So get ready to spam the raid 20+ times a week to never see the particular item you are looking for.